German site
ESOHUB.de has word from Bethesda's Matt Firor that The Elder Scrolls
Online will feature an in-game store, in spite of
the recent
announcement the game will feature subscriptions. In a mantra learned from
F2P developers, he explains how this is a chance to buy things irrelevant to the
actual game. The site is German, but the interview is offered as a video, so
Matt explains this in English: "There won't be anything like 'bonus points,' but
we'll have a shop to buy kind of fun stuff, and services too, like name changes
and things like that. But it's not part of the core game. Like, anything in the
core game is included in the subscription price." Thanks
AusGamers via
Reddit.

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Marvin T. Martian wrote on Aug 23, 2013, 21:36:This will be the 1st and 2nd Chapters of a new Dummies Book---How to kill a franchise for Dummies. Chapter 1--add pay to play , Chapter 2-- add pay to play and an additional store as well.Almost forgot Chapter 3--charge full retail price as a stand-a-lone game and then charge extra to play. LOL what a joke. The bigger joke is that there are a bunch of idiots that will pay for it.

Bye Bye.

It is impossible for this to kill the franchise. This is a fork, not a main release. It's an entirely separate studio.

If this was Elder Scrolls VI: Online, then sure. But it isn't. The Bureau won't kill X-COM, Civ Rev and Civ Online won't kill Civ, and this won't kill Elder Scrolls.